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  1. Venturous Randy
    My Compaq Presario lap top has gotten real slow. I did the disc cleanup and defragged and restored to an earlier point and it is still slow. I went on to cccleaner and did a scan and it did the usual 3,000+ problems found and it said it had a free download. But when I installed it to do the scan and it found problems, it requires me to purchase to do the fix. Is the free download just for the scan? Any other suggestions? RandyA
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    You poor thing, but you are really doing good on your new to you place. RandyA
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    Well, with this heat, Linda and I again took off to the mountains. With some great curvy back roads thru NC and TN, we ended up on Roan Mountain and the low temperature we saw was 64 degrees. We did a little hiking out to the point to walk off some of the great meal she treated me to at Western Sizzling in Burnsville, NC. I took a picture after I parked the bike and it was 66 degrees. We did encounter a hard rain for a few minutes while we were eating, but it was no big deal, but it did keep us grazing at the buffet longer. RandyA
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    One thing I forgot to mention, on Thursday night a little before dark as I was taking a shower and when I came back to the camper, Linda was standing beside it. She then proceeded to tell me that while she was sitting in one of the cloth chairs beside the picnic table, she heard a noise and a bear about two feet long was about ten feet from her trying to get into a plastic bag she had hung on the bushes. It scared her and when she jumped up it took off. She asked me what I would have done and I said I wasn't scared as long as I could run faster than she could. Mark, I wish we could have met up with you. RandyA
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    Hey rooster, ya couldn't by any chance let me in on what the Lotto numbers are going to be, can ya? RandyA
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    If anyone is wondering about all the joke comments, this was originally posted in the Joke section. RandyA
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    With the miserable hot weather we have been having, Linda and I decided to load up the little camper and take off to the mountains. We ended up staying at Mt Pisgah Campground, which is about 5,000 feet up and about 25 miles south of Asheville, NC. The temps on that part of the parkway were about 75 degrees and Thursday morning temperature was 58 degrees. We did get into some heat when we went down to Brevard and ate on Thursday evening and again when going to Cherokee, NC yesterday. We had a little rain shower in Cherokee and it cooled off then we headed back up the mountain. We are supposed to have rain tonight and tomorrow and being up there with it being cool and wet was enough for us to come back to Johnson City for the weekend and maybe we will go somewhere again Monday if we can find someplace cool. The only downer was two couples that came in Thursday night and set up their tents next to us and they were loud and about every sentence had the F word and the women were worse then the guys. As we were packing up to leave this morning, I mentioned it to one of the maintenance men picking up trash and within about five minutes one of the Rangers were giving them a little visit. There were several families close by that had small kids that were easily within hearing them. I am always a little anxious pulling the camper as it weighs about 450 pounds loaded. The bike pulls it fine, even up the mountains, but slowing it down quickly would not be fun. Fortunately, everything went good. RandyA
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    Linda and I were making a trek back to my house on a 65 mph divided four lane with uncontrolled entries and topped a hill and saw three police cars in the road. The light from them was so bright, it was hard to see much of anything. With it being about 10 pm and traffic, I was afraid to slow down too much, but as we passed, I did see a black and silver cruiser type bike laying in the road at an intersection. I am now watching the local news and nothing has been reported yet. It sure did give us both a sickening feeling. RandyA
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    I have put over 123,000 miles on this bike and I am learning more and more about how I end up going where I am looking more than I ever thought I would. RandyA
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    He does not want to do it as an attachment. There was a post recently about doing the full picture that is not an attachment, but is part of the post. RandyA
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    http://1saleaday.com/ has the Tom Tom XL 350 4.3 GPS on sale for $39.95 today. It is probably a refurbished unit. RandyA
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    Wow, great pictures. Thanks for posting them. RandyA
  13. Venturous Randy
    Years ago I went with the bikini side covers and I really have not noticed heat being as big of a concern as before. This is also with me routinely riding with shorts on. RandyA
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    There's a transmit button? RandyA
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    ? He is asking about a 2nd gen. RandyA
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    Yep, that's what we are here for, to make you look like a foo......, I mean to help you keep your bike running great. Actually, about any question you could ask like this has been encountered by someone else and that's why the question was asked back to you. RandyA
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    Not your name, the name Ventura. I have heard rumors there was a Ventura before the Venture. RandyA
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    I have had the Oddesy 680 and now a DEKA and both worked very good. I put the Oddesy in my son's 86 and am running the DEKA. I have been in some hot places with the bike recently and had to start it hot and the DEKA did fine. With a good battery and upgraded cables, these bikes do ok. Where are you getting the Ventura name from? RandyA
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    Is this not covered under warranty since it is a wear item? RandyA
  20. Venturous Randy
    Thanks for sharing your interesting story. I am also lucky that I am about an hour from the BRP and yes, it has been my heat escape many times. I just checked the thermometer out on my carport and it says 80 degrees. I need to run some erands, so I think I will take the bike rather than the cage and the A/C. RandyA
  21. Venturous Randy
    Mine was intermitten years ago and I just ran a jumper from my high beam wire over to the high beam indicator light wire and it has worked great since. RandyA
  22. Venturous Randy
    I had an ice cream cone today. I'm doing my part. RandyA
  23. Venturous Randy
    I again want to remind everyone to check the play in their side stand. When changing the oil on Rocket's 86, out of habit, I checked the side stand and there was at least an inch play at the end of the side stand tip. When I removed the side stand, the forks were splayed open and the bolt was bent. I was able to use my hydraulic press to bend the fork tips back parallel and also straighten the bolt. With the side stand now fitting the frame mount just snug enough to not bind, I pulled the side stand off and checked the seating of the bolt. The shoulder of the bolt seated with a gap under the head of the bolt so I used a thin washer so the bolt seated at the shoulder and the nut at the same time. I cleaned everything and reassembled and tightened the bolt to the point it was almost binding and then tightened the nut. I was able to get it to the point there may have been an eighth inch play at the tip of the side stand without any binding. When we did his 83, there was about the same amount of play, but the bolt was not bent, but there was a slight step worn on the side of the bolt and the forks on the side stand were splayed about the same. Again did the washer trick and got about an eighth inch play when tightened back in place. I am really glad I was able to fix this as his bike has a lot of lean on the side stand and with the trailer hooked up, it would have been a disaster to encounter a broken side stand/bolt. Rocket should pick up another side stand bolt, but for now I believe he is good to go as long at he monitors the looseness. Again, for those of you that have never had you side stand fail, and it will if you let it get loose enough, you can hardly imagine how big of a problem it can be. RandyA
  24. Venturous Randy
    Got in a good visit, some good eating and a little maintenance. Was hoping to show them around the area some, but I believe they were a little tired of riding. We ate Mexican the first night with Steve (SGN) and took them to Golden Corral with Steve's lady Ann and my lady Linda. I don't think Golden Corral made much profit on us with their buffet. As you can see, we also had a full moon. RandyA
  25. Venturous Randy
    My 83 has been on reserve the 15 years and 123,000 miles I have put on it. I see no reason to mess with it. RandyA
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